| | | An unlikely romance in the likeliest of places.
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Martin Scorsese presents The Lovers On The Bridge, starring award-winning actress Juliette Binoche is a uniquely uplifting story of two social misfits who risk everything for love. A homeless artist who is losing her sight, Michele finds herself in a passionate relationship with a troubled street performer named Alex. Then, despite all obstacles, they together find love and shelter on the famed pont-neuf bridge in Paris. But, in time, the Lovers On The Bridge will be tested as the secrets hidden in Michele's past catch up with her. Vogue magazine raves that The Lovers On The Bridge is "one of the decade's most thrilling films", and the Boston Phoenix exclaims: "The Lovers On The Bridge is about as close to true love as movies get."
"...grand gestures and touching moments of truth..." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Inspired and original!" Washington Post
Editor's Note
Simply put, LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE is one of the most exhilarating motion pictures of the 1990s. In building a replica of the famed Parisian Pont-Neuf bridge, Carax's film became the most expensive French film ever produced, up to that point. This budget controversy threatened to overshadow the film itself, which has slowly begun to garner the proper recognition it deserves (thanks to Martin Scorsese and Miramax's American rerelease in the summer of 1999). Lavant portrays Alex, a drug-addicted, fire eating homeless man who lives on the deserted bridge, which is being restored for the French Revolution Bicentennial Celebration. When Michele stumbles into his life, a desperate, passionate relationship unfolds. Michele is an artist who is losing her eyesight due to a bizarre disease. But plot isn't the issue here. The sheer visual spectacle is. Shifting from brutal documentary to romantic melodrama to surrealism, Carax's THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE is an electric, powerful, poetic picture.
| Features | Audio: French Dolby Digital Surround Sound | | Subtitles: English | | Scene Selection | | Interactive Menus | | Audio: French Dolby Digital Surround Sound; English Dubbed |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 1/4/2005 |
| Running Time: 126 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1991 | | Catalog ID: 1827903 | | UPC: 00717951004697 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: French | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English Dubbed, French | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...The film's many emotional ambiguities come together like an intricate jigsaw puzzle..." -- Rating: B 02/18/2000 pp.90-1Box Office
"...LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE bursts with unflinching rawness....Dizzying camerawork and editing and brutally honest acting keep the emotions powerfully real..." 08/01/1999 p.57 USA Today
"...Moving..." 07/02/1999 p.6E Film Comment
"...A love story that dances in between the magical cinema-worlds of Jean Vigo and Stanley Donen..." 11/01/1992 p.63-70 Los Angeles Times
"...A go-for-broke dazzler that takes constant chances, dares to go over the top, indulges in one anticlimactic scene after another only to make such risks pay off all the more at the finish..." 07/02/1999 p.C14 Chicago Sun-Times
"...It has grand gestures and touching moments of truth..." 12/03/1999 p.29 San Francisco Chronicle 7 of 10
The Lovers on the Bridge must be one of the all-time crackpot follies of movie-making. In its - Bob Graham
Boxoffice Magazine 8 of 10
Lovers on the Bridge bursts with unflinching rawness in its depiction of a homeless couple re - Luisa F. Ribeiro
TIme Magazine 7 of 10
Juliette Binoche has one of the world's most magnificient faces--delicate, intelligent, grave, quest - Richard Corliss
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